Backhandspring Tips

• Lock your arms!
• Don't undercut. Make your backhandspring long, but not so long that it looks flat
• When your hands touch the floor, push off hard to get lots of power.
• Snap your legs down quickly and try to get faster everytime!
• Don't let your mental block scare you, you can do it!
• Keep your legs straight and together
• Push off your legs
• Make sure your knees don't go over your toes while sitting back

If you have any other tips, please comment and I'll add them to the list!

Scorpion/Needle Tips

This is how I got my needle! I did these everyday!

1. Wall Splits. Once you get falt on the wall, climb up the wall to get more of a stretch!

2. Oversplits. Take a thick book and put your leg on top of it to go down into the splits even further!

3. Backbends! Do these over and over! Try doing a backbend on your elbows and making your legs straight!

4.  When you do your scorpion/needle, do it against a wall to hold it longer, and get more of a stretch.

5. Go into your splits and reach back as far as possible! (This hurts!)

How to Do The Splits

1. Do 50 jumping jacks. It's never good to stretch cold muscles until you are warmed up.

2. Sit in a straddle. Reach as far as you can to the right for 30 seconds. Reach as far as you can to the left for 30 seconds. Reach as far out as you can to the middle for thirty seconds. Try to get your nose to your knee and your chest to the floor. Don't forget to point your toes.

3. Stand up and touch your toes. Hold for 30 seconds.

4. Sit in a pike, point your toes, and reach as far as you can. Hold for 30 seconds.

5. Get into your splits and go as far down as you can. Try taking your hands off the ground and letting gravity push you down. If you want, have someone push you down! Stay in your splits for about 30 seconds to a minute.

6. Repeat all these steps until you get your splits!

7. Once you get your splits, don't stop stretching. It's possible to lose your splits if you stop stretching!

GOOD LUCK! (Comment what type of posts you want!)